Flora Annie Steel

Flora Annie Steel
Flora Annie Steel, c. 1903
Flora Annie Steel, c. 1903
Born(1847-04-02)2 April 1847
Sudbury, Middlesex, England[1]
Died12 April 1929(1929-04-12) (aged 82)
Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England[1]
OccupationWriter
Period19th century
GenreHistory, Fiction, Children's Literature

Flora Annie Steel (2 April 1847 – 12 April 1929) was a writer who lived in British India for 22 years. She was noted especially for books set in the Indian sub-continent or connected with it. Her novel On the Face of the Waters (1896) describes incidents in the Indian Mutiny.

  1. ^ a b Brown, Susan; Patricia Clements & Isobel Grundy (2006). "Flora Annie Steel entry: Overview screen". Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. Cambridge University Press Online. Archived from the original on 24 September 2019. Retrieved 28 November 2014.